Home » Search Center » Results: Book Reviews
Results for "Book Reviews"
Jelly's Blues: the Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton
by Joel Roberts
Jelly's Blues: the Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton By Howard Reich and William Gaines Da Capo Press 2003 There are two heroes in Jelly's Blues. One, of course, is the book's subject, legendary early jazz composer and pianist Jelly Roll Morton. The other is an eccentric New ...
Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela
by Joel Roberts
Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela By Hugh Masekela and Michael CheersCrown Publishers 2004 Subtitled the “The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela," this powerful autobiography of the veteran jazz/ world music trumpeter is much, much more: it's the story of a man's--and a nation's--journey through tragedy, turmoil and ...
Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams
by Bob Jacobson
Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams Tammy L. Kernodle Northeastern University Press 2004 Five years ago Linda Dahl gave us Morning Glory, the first book-length biography of pianist/composer/arranger Mary Lou Williams. Now Tammy Kernodle, Associate Professor of Music at Miami University (Ohio) has covered much ...
Cuba and its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo
by AAJ Staff
Ned Sublette Cuba and its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo Chicago Review Press 672 pages 2004 ISBN 1556525168 It's worth pausing now and then to appreciate the fact that our understanding of music and culture is a direct product of our ...
Astor Piazzolla: A Memoir
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Natalio Gorin Translated, annotated, and expanded by Fernando González Amadeus Press, 2001 ISBN 1-57467-067-0 Fernando González, Jazziz's current editor, translated and fortified Natalio Gorin's documentation of a musician's memoirs described as a God on stage and a son of a bitch off it. The account is unavoidable reading ...
The New York Times Essential Library--Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings
by Colin Fleming
Jazz, like several twentieth century art forms, has for decades seemed to gain acceptance as a scholarly concern in part because of a number of renowned writers and critics heralding something that was once, remarkably, regarded as vulgar, base entertainment for the base masses, and now deemed America's indigenous artistic progeny. As with James Agee and ...
The Edge Effect: Treating Memory Disorders With Music
by Daniel Kassell
Eric Braverman MD in this just released book The Edge Effect (Sterling) believes that “singing or playing an instrument yourself is an active way in which you can increase GABA." Dr. Braverman, also the force behind creating The Place for Achieving Total Health (PATH Medical in NYC and Penndel, PA) describes the biochemical GABA ...
The Other Side of Nowhere
by Norman Weinstein
The Other Side Of Nowhere Jazz, Improvisation, And Communities In Dialogue Edited by Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble Wesleyan University Press 2004, 460 pages No topic in jazz is as notoriously resistant to easy explication as improvisation. The most ambitous book ever published on the topic, Thinking In ...
Sonny Rollins: The Cutting Edge
by Kyle Simpler
Sonny Rollins, The Cutting Edge by Richard Palmer Continuum Books Besides being one of the most influential tenor saxophone players in jazz history, Sonny Rollins also happens to be one of its most enigmatic figures as well. Given his introspective nature and penchant for withdrawal, Rollins easily comes across as ...
Writer Chris Albertson Revives Bessie Smith Again
by Daniel Kassell
BessieChris Albertson Yale University Press 336 pages 45 illustrations ISBN: 0300099029 Reprising his 1972 biography Bessie, Jazz Journalist and long time contributor to Stereo review Chris Albertson has added to the lore of the blues. Historically and culturally the first successful woman entertainer in ...
